Re: how to determine from script if/where X is running

2008-03-27 Thread Patter
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:50:07 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Most programs simply check for the DISPLAY environment variable. This is not totally reliable as it can be changed at will, but if the user messes around with that variable, it is considered his fault. And you're in good company.

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Patter
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:40:12 +0100, Curt Howland wrote: I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that the job executed successfully.

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-29 Thread Patter
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:00:15 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure captures my image of debian. If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. I made a

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-06 Thread Patter
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:30:21 +0100, Steve Lamb wrote: John Hasler wrote: s. keeling writes: Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, including on_some_other_server(don't much care how), aka. imap. Internet Message Access Protocol is a protocol, not a file format. Not to

Re: too many mutts

2008-02-04 Thread Patter
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:00:19 +0100, BartlebyScrivener wrote: Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already- running instance of it, instead of starting a new mutt? Hacked up from a little perlish I had

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-29 Thread Patter
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:50:11 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote: I'd be interested in a filter that would work on a message like that.. Not sure what the difference is between a message about puppies and a message about ndiswrapper.. Not sure if ndiswrapper is in the dictionary, but puppies is.

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-23 Thread Patter
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:21 +0100, Dan H wrote: Hmmm... I tried that, hoping that this would get me nearer the infamous mutt. Hey, great, there's even an IMAP section! You can put in everything... username, password, authentication methods... except an IMAP server. I mean, c'mon. From mine

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Patter
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:10:21 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/22/08 05:41, Pantor wrote: [snip] It is correct. Because Mutt is written not for humans. To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard.

Re: GUI programming

2008-01-17 Thread Patter
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:24 +0100, Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi there, just a short note: there are MANY popular toolkits, mostly qt(KDE), gtk(GNOME), wx, etc. etc. But, you are probably asking about multiplatformness of those. So let see ... look at all the great mozilla software, they are

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-09 Thread Patter
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:10:12 +0100, Qubby wrote: On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could get to

X11 not displaying clearly

2008-01-04 Thread Patter
I'm a long-time debian user, running unstable with gdm and collcted programs from gnome kde. I rebooted my system this morning and the X display has gone weird (there's no better way to put this as you'll see in the screenshot http://patter.mine.nu/screen.jpg ). Fluxbox looks OK with the right

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-03 Thread Patter
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:20:10 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little arrows in mutt's index. Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt correctly,

Re: getting a printer published.....

2007-12-17 Thread Patter
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:10:10 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: i have a network printer on my LAN that uses a peculiar driver, i configured one machine to be able to talk to it, so far so good, the printer works properly now iwante the other machines to access that printer through my server,

Re: getting a printer published.....

2007-12-17 Thread Patter
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:20:08 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:31:24AM +, Patter wrote: You may need to adjust the BrowseAddress option to include the server's indeed, despite the documentation @LOCAL isn't enough, i had to add @IF(eth0) to get it work... Ah, so

Re: NFS setup

2007-12-12 Thread Patter
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:00:20 +0100, iuri de araujo sampaio wrote: I have installed nfs to the server via.. sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap nfs-kernel-server I have installed nfs to the client via.. sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap My desktop is the server machine

Re: Apache and perl CGI

2007-12-03 Thread Patter
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:40:16 +0100, Bogart Salzberg wrote: Perl has a taint mode (add switch -T to the command line or shebang line, as in #!/usr/bin/perl -T). The taint mode, I think, prevents user input from being used in unsafe operations until it is filtered by a regular expression.

Re: perl Time::HiRes debian package?

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:12 +0100, Mark Quitoriano wrote: is there a deb package for perl Time::HiRes? Its in the core perl package. -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round

Re: Firestarter

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to run it under KDE apt-get install --reinstall firestarter You normally don't need --reinstall, that

Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:10:07 +0100, Bob Goldberg wrote: I agree - problem is DEFINITELY ldap authentication; forget about exim my exchange server is setup to accept clear text, and anonymous OK (even though I'm not trying to be anon). here's the thing - I have no idea what is going on

Re: [OT] firefox 3

2007-11-22 Thread Patter
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:20:12 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Very few [OT]'s nowadays. Anybody try the new firefox 3? Yes, and it works well (official tarball from mozilla). -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Patter
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:21 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: You could create a set of config files for each setup and write a script that copies the correct set to /etc/shorewall then restarts shorewall. Have the script start when an interface goes up. Though a decent connection-tracking